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    The Physics of Batman

    By Posted on 8.15.2008 11 Comments

    8.22.2008 at 02:50pm - Comment by t3x4sguy

    Seriously, articles this poorly based on actual movie facts is a discredit to this PopSci. -There was no clocking mode on the batmobile in the first movie, it simply turned off the lights and ran quite. -When Bruce is talking about "triangulating the joker" via cell phones, he's talking about doing it with the "Sonar/Radar" Hollywood magic, not just by using the phones native abilities. -The "Spinner" slide states that Batman strings out one of his utility cables and anchors them around some lamp posts. Not true! The cables where shout out from the batpod into the trucks front end, woven through the lamp posts, and then anchored into the pavement by the batpod itself. -The "All Action" slide references the Joker standing in the cargo bay of the trailer. BIG FREAKING problem with this one. It seems that the author missed the fact there's two trucks involved from the Jokers team. One w/ a trailer that he's in, and the other is a garbage truck. The Batmobile plows into the garbage truck and never touches the other. I understand making mistakes, I really. But when writing an article for a well known magazine, you should at least try to know what you're talking about.



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